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A Penguin, A Duck, A Digital Writing Month

My penguin friend, Pengu McHugh, says he will help me out during the month, but I think he is really just jealous of Digi the Duck.

Despite my ambivalence about WriMos, I will be participating in Digital Writing Month (DigiWriMo) during November. My participation, however, will not be focused on reaching 50,000 words. My sense that aiming for a high word count can be counterproductive is magnified when it comes to working with digital media. If I find myself working on a highly visual project, I do not want to stop simply because pictures do not add to my ability to reach a target. (Of course, all this applies to my own working habits and preferences; if a numerical goal helps you, go for it!)

Instead, I want to do the following (which I suspect will bring me up to 50k words anyway):

to write a daily Twitter poem (please leave small form suggestions in the comments)

Elizabeth Kate Switaj’s Latest Publication

February 7, 2015

In my latest poem, Dolls, now appearing at Bird’s Thumb, I’ve mashed up fiction and truth-as-I-remember-it to twist youthful slings back against themselves. The fun part, for me, is that I don’t have to tell you which lines I believe to…